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Today I’ve taken time to explore Google Wave, the new integrated platform on which Google sees as our online future with the move to HTML 5.0.  It’s still at preview stage with a full launch later in 2009, however, now’s the time to get our heads around the concept.  A wave is an open source, [...]

It’s interesting to see the video on the Mindspot the library of the future as blogged about by Jenny Luca today. It offers a glimpse of the future as libraries are incorporate multimedia options and the voice of youth. With so many resources being freely available online, the future library is going to be a [...]

It’s school holiday break time in Australia so what better time to investigate games appropriate for social learning.  Their mission statement states that Games for Change: seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, human rights, global conflict and climate change. We are [...]

It’s interesting to note that during this TED Talk by Tim Berners-Lee he didn’t once mention the semantic web but approaches it as an explanation of the future of the web and the potential of data access.  As the creator the concept of html and the internet as we know it today, he obviously has [...]

The Horizon Project issued its 2009 Horizon Report this week. This is the fifth report and its value as a predictor of trends can been seen at After Five Years: The Megatrends While specifically directed at higher education, it is equally relevant to P-12. The project is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and [...]

Last night I came across an article I read while travelling that’s too good to let it get away, it’s  Young minds, fast times: the 21st century digital learner good reading by Marc Prensky who is famous for his promotion of ‘games as devices for learning’ and was published in the June 2008 edition of [...]

When you speak in terms of days, even as 5000 days, you realise how quickly the Web has changed our lives.  This TED Talk video by philosopher and publisher, Kevin Kelly is a concise evaluation of the Web’s past and future entitled - Predicting the next 5,000 days of the Web.  He attempts to put a [...]

I’m finally getting around to posting one of the teacher library (library media specialist) sessions attended at NECC. The NECC Remixing: Library 2.5 wiki has a UStream video link presentation of the live audio which is worth listening to.  Joyce Valenza was particularly interesting as she is passionate about the need for school libraries to [...]

This evening I’ve been spent some time reading the latest posts of George Siemens on his Connectivism blog.  It’s not the type of reading you’d wish to do after writing 80-90 student reports as many teachers are this week, however,  it does present an opportunity to think about the value of what is happening in [...]

Ken Robinson is working hard to get the message out that the world today is in the midst of a major revolution that’s having a profound effect on the life prospects of students. This video – Creatively Speaking was recorded on April 10, 2008, at the Apple Education Leadership Summit in San Francisco when he [...]